Paul Evasick, assistant coach to his wife Charlotte, provides this recap of the season-opener for the East Greenwich boys indoor track team:

East Greenwich 78 vs Cranston East 8
East Greenwich 76 vs Warwick Vets 10

East Greenwich Boys Indoor Track opened the regular season as expected with two dominant performances! The Avengers are hoping this is the season they can give Track powerhouse Bishop Hendricken a run for the Division title. The Av’s started strong on Friday night and had some outstanding performances. East tied or set three school records on Friday night as they cruised to 2-0.

East came out of the gate sweeping the 3000 meter race for a 9-0 start and were lead by Sophomore sensation Nick Ross who destroyed the current 3000 meter record for the school. Nick strided to an easy victory as he blew away the 3000 meter record set by Cornelius McCaffrey 2 years ago of 9:25.0. Nick ran a 9:05.1. “Nick looked very strong tonight, he is in excellent shape coming off a great cross country season in the fall. He has even more to give, that is not even the best performance he has, he has so much more!!” Senior Captain Akash Chougule and senior Gabe Hayek finished off the sweep of the event in 9:46.5 and 10:44.3 respectively.

The next two events on the track saw Avenger tracksters tie or break school records. Senior Captain Wes Evasick came out of the blocks in the 45 hurdles to tie his own school record of 6.8 seconds and lead another sweep in our second event as junior Mike Swartz and senior Chris Walsh finished 2nd and 3rd in 7.3 and 7.6 seconds, putting another 9 points on the board. “Wes has been working hard all off season. He hopes to compete for the state title this winter and his opening performance sure helps his confidence as we go forward!”

The third event on the track was the 45 dash and East saw another school record fall as junior Harrison Saunders lead another sweep and 9 points on the board. Harrison ran a 5.6 in the 45 and fell Kevin Dubuc’s record of 5.7 seconds set back in 2003. Senior captain Alex Iwomoto and senior Dustin Baker followed him in second and third in 5.8 and 5.9 seconds respectively. “Harrison is truly a powerful runner who found his focus late last year and we expect big things from him this season. He has come to practice fully engaged and focused, he will be a force to recon with in the sprints this season!” others having a good night were senior Tom Davis first place in shot put 39-2, senior Andrew Glod 1st in 600 1:31.5, Junior Mark Feigan 1st in 1500 4:22.6

Coach E- “ It was an exciting start to the evening but after the third school record falling in the first three events it became alittle surreal. We knew we had a good team this season lead by a group of seniors that have been with this program the past 4 years, but this start was more then any of us expected!” “What is scary is this team has room to improve before this season is over.” “We have BIG goals this season to compete for our Division and Class C titles and then finish in the top three teams at the state meet at URI. Not bad for an Indoor program that did not exist 4 years ago.”

They have started the momentum running in the right direction and now will take the track again after the holidays on Jan 4th against West Warwick and Cranston West.